clamping
夹持,夹紧,夹具,钳制
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Definitions
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- : a device, usually of some rigid material, for strengthening or supporting objects or fastening them together.
- : an appliance with opposite sides or parts that may be adjusted or brought closer together to hold or compress something.
- : one of a pair of movable pieces, made of lead or other soft material, for covering the jaws of a vise and enabling it to grasp without bruising.
- : Also called clamp rail .Carpentry. a rail having a groove or a number of mortises for receiving the ends of a number of boards to bind them into a flat piece, as a drawing board or door.
- : Nautical. a horizontal timber in a wooden hull, secured to ribs to support deck beams and to provide longitudinal strength.mast clamp.
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- : to fasten with or fix in a clamp.
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- : clamp down, to become more strict: There were too many tax loopholes, so the government clamped down.
- : clamp down on, to impose or increase controls on.
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Elsewhere, investors are so far brushing off the latest lockdown news, which threatens to put the clamps on Christmas on both sides of the Atlantic.
It’s helpful to use clamps at this stage even though it’s a test fit, just to ensure your clamps are long enough.
Some people talk, for example, of clamping down on sales of types of ammo.
Reform entitlements by clamping down on payments to suppliers and providers?
America has spent tens of billions of dollars in a basically futile effort to coax Islamabad into clamping down on the Taliban.
By all rights, bank regulators in Washington, not the AGs, should have been the ones clamping down on these abuses.
There must also be change wheels, studs and quadrant plates, self-acting feed for surfacing and cross slide, and clamping nuts.
Thus we see the advantage of clamping the transome to the leg rather than fixing it with any arrangement of holes.
Burl glared at his tribesmen, clamping his jaws tight lest they chatter.
The next process is doubling and clamping above and below decks.
The parts are placed in the clamping jaws (Figure 47) with 1/8 to 1/2 inch of metal extending beyond the jaw.